In the #scifi “Robots of Dawn” series, Lijah Bailey (from a Earth-is-one-giant-city) meets Gladia (from a tee-hee-it’s-not-the-antebellum-South-but-with-robots-not-slaves-or-is-it) planet. Smelling flowers, which are not on his world, he avers:
“These flowers smell like perfume!”
Much chuckles for the reader.
Or, today at W58/Lexington Ave across from the new DKNY ad:
“Wow that lady looks so much like Kaia Gerber!”
The lady in question is Cindy Crawford, supermodel, and mother of Kaia Gerber.
“This song is so pretty. It almost sounds like something the Beatles would have done.”
In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as diverse as wrestling, films, plastic and cars, Barthes elegantly deciphers the symbols and signs embedded deep in familiar aspects of modern life, unmasking the hidden ideologies and meanings which implicitly affect our thought and behaviour.
@paninid you can only offer thoughts and prayers with the first one ( 🧠 ➕ 🙏)
In general 🙏is funnier and more useful in ironic contexts.
To dig all the way in, and setting humor aside, I would say 🙏is more hopeful/optimistic and 🤞is more nervous/unsure vibes. But that could just be my interpretation.
I love emergent online semiotics, emoji and gifs and such. Especially affinity groups with custom emoji that take on meaning inscrutable to outsiders
Have the silicon valley masters in their ivory towers become so cynical of us plebes, that they’ve fundamentally lost trust in the collective intelligence of us as a species?
They seem to think so, because how I read their manifesto is that we’d be safer as subjects to a new machine god instead? 🤔
‟Research reveals symbols are more memorable than words. This novel study dives into our brain’s knack for recalling graphic symbols and logos over their word counterparts. Symbols, offering visual anchors for abstract ideas, outperform words in memory tests. This understanding could revolutionize visual communication and design.”
An #academic question, #linguistics or English? My #semiotics friends? I have been using $#!+ as a typographic substitute for a certain scatalogical term for, 20 years or longer. (And according to the search engines, I am alone in this.) What is this called, properly? It similar to using strings of emoticons to mean something like this 🌾🐍🌾 (snake in the grass) but not the same.Not my field I am just curious. It is definitely not a neologism as in santorum. Is it? (Sorry for the crappy post.)